I have an opinion on all of this crap being slung around, but I'm too lazy to back it up with arguments and I don't want to ruffle anyone's feathers. Basically; I think that even when alcohol is involved, you need to have personal responsibility. I don't think it's that hard of a concept. If a women is drinking herself(or a man) to the point where you can't comprehend what's going on around you then I'm not going to have any remorse for something happening to them that they didn't intend for. They're putting themselves in that situation.

Anyway, I'm reading Brave New World for like the fourth time now because I'm broke this week and found a copy at a friends house. Haven't read it in a long while though. Should be interesting.

I tried those. I was like a hundred or so pages into the first one it and I really, really hated it. The fact I later found out the author is a big promoter of LARPING completely killed it for me.

The first book is probably the worst one. It steadily gets more AWESOME as the series wears on.

Perhaps the most awesome thing: Resurrecting the T-Rex skeleton that can be found the Field Museum in Chicago (yes, THAT T-Rex), riding it into downtown Chicago and using it to stop the necromantic apocalypse.

The first book is probably the worst one. It steadily gets more AWESOME as the series wears on.

Perhaps the most awesome thing: Resurrecting the T-Rex skeleton that can be found the Field Museum in Chicago (yes, THAT T-Rex), riding it into downtown Chicago and using it to stop the necromantic apocalypse.

That's a cool cover that I hadn't seen before. Anyway I ******* love this book, BEE is one of my all time favorite authors and Less Than Zero is filled with some amazing moments. To me no other book has ever understood depression so well, if that makes any sense...

His next book due out in a year or so is a sequel of Less Than Zero, btw.

Beyond the plot, from what I read, the writing was as bad as I've seen in a published novel. It was glorified fan-fiction quality. I know a lot of people love those books, and I don't mean to be a jerk about it, but it was excruciating.

<3 BEE. One of the best authors of this generation IMO, and a great social commentator. Less Then Zero is also my favorite book by him, although I did love The Informers. And if we are speaking of human depravity, the gloriousness of American Psycho knows no comparison. That is some of the most disturbing **** Ive ever read.

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The APS is strong in this one.

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Tears for Fears is better than whatever it is you happen to be thinking about right now.

i'm not denying women do the former, but, men, for the most part don't care about the why, they care about the what. and the what is their deep seated desire to feel better about themselves by putting more notches in their headboard. yes, it is ambiguious, but, men take no care or concern for the law, and yes, it takes alcohol for them to fuel that iron resolve of, no, it isn't rape, yes, she consented (i think), no i didn't take advantage of her. no i'm not going to call her again, it was just a... 'thing'.

I hate the fact that I can't actually have more than a drink or two in public without fear that some guy is going to try to get me to have sex with him, because i'm drunk. It's unnerving, unreasonable, and misogynistic.

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say you're a little overly paranoid and need to relax a bit. there's probably a 90% chance that if you have more than a drink or two some dude is NOT going to try to get you to have sex with him.

i know a lot of bar-hoppin', club-goin' types, and not a single one of them tries to get bitches so ****** up that they are damn near in a comatose. and nothing I read in that book made me think that Tucker Max endorses that. this guy ain't my hero or anything, but it is a funny book any way you look at it.

females make a big show about how they're in control because they're in control because they got *****. well ****, if you don't wanna be labeled a skank then have enough self-control to not let me and a gang of friends run through that. you can't really blame the guy if the girl does say yes, and that is exactly what happens. (90% of the time)